Derrick Bostrom Quotes
After last Friday's Meat Puppets show, their annual fall visit to Phoenix's Crescent Ballroom, I went up and introduced myself to the two tapers in the process of packing their gear.
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I don't get nothing but love. In every ghetto all over the world. Nothing but love. They respect that I came outta there and I'm doing it the right way. You can't do nothing but respect that.
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I just want people that like my music to like me.
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Lack of genius never held anyone back. Only time wasted on resentment and daydreaming can do that.
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The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.
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I listen to the far left which informs the far right. Somewhere in the middle is where we end up.
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Time is a very precious gift - so precious that it is only given to us moment by moment.
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I always wanted to do something creative, but as much as I'm creative, it's in a really hard-core, right-brained way. For me, painting doesn't do it for me. There's no constraint.
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I was a teenage godmother.
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I think truth as an idea should be left to the philosophers and perhaps religious leaders and politicians, and professional people who deal with that idea.
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A government can do only what is feasible given the political and economic context.
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... in this impersonal world of the nine-digit zip code, credit cards, and numbered bank accounts, in this world of no marriage, late marriage, and remarriage, the operative word in office relationships is 'family.
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There are no signposts in the sea.
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I just want to be in the studio. When you've got all the gear you want in your own house, it's difficult to go out and do something else, you know?
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Only super fans and close personal friends ever heard this stuff, but it's long past time that I share them with a wider audience. I still think "Beer Barrel Polka" would make a great Meat Puppets cover.
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Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.
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When I get home and turn on the radio, I hear songs that are new to me, but to everybody else they're old. I try to keep the music fresh in my head.
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As far as big egos, there are definitely guys out there that just think God only knows what about themselves.
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After last Friday's Meat Puppets show, their annual fall visit to Phoenix's Crescent Ballroom, I went up and introduced myself to the two tapers in the process of packing their gear.
